Master bathrooms in the condominium apartments at the Plaza Hotel will have, according to an article by Anne E. Collins with photographs by Hillary Launey in the travel section of www.PointClickhome.com, white diamond-shape tile walls, a Kallista sink with two tapered cylindrical legs, a gilt mirror, a Lefroy Brooks handshower fixture reminiscent of early telephone receiver designs, and white mosaic floors with corner motifs based on designs in the Plaza's lobby.
Kitchens will have "mini marble blocks" that "move across the backsplash" and "below them, a ledge of dark Nero Marquinia marble meets the counter" and "a Dramatic Perrin and Rowe gooseneck faucet is the focal point of the room," the article maintained.
The article noted that architect Gal Nauer used white oak in the Parquet de Versailles pattern, bordered by an inlayed walnut strip in the apartment entrances and opted to keep the "large proportions of the base mouldings but "streamlined the decoration" as opposed to the former design that was "incredibly oprnate, with heavy gold leafing." The article also said that in the master bedroom Ms. Nauer, the daughter of Isaac Tshuva, the owner of the property, "wanted to install one decorative fixture to the master bedroom - a fireplace."
Mr. Tshuva is the founder and chairman of the El-Ad Group, whose Elad Properties subsidiary bought the property three years ago for $675 million from Alwaleed Bin Talal Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi Prince, and Millennium and Copthorne Hotels. Two years ago, Elad sold the hotel portion of the property back to the prince for about $500 million. The renovation of the hotel has created 181 condominium apartments, a 134-room hotel on floors 4 through 10, and 152 hotel-condo units on floors 11 through 21.
An item on Curbed.com today about the pointclickhome.com article elicited numerous anonymous comments, mostly negative: "Pretty underwhelming"; "Looks just like my girlfriend's Fort Green rental"; "My Washington Heights co-op has more detail than this place"; "it's pretty stark for the price-point"; and "Custom made Viking 'professional' stoves/ranges? I would have expected nothing less than Le Cornnue, Bonnet, or (maybe) Aga."
According to an article in the October 1, 2007 edition of The New York Sun by Bradley Hope "just 12 of the luxury condos have yet to be purchased..., and a third of the hotel-condos are gone," adding that with...luxury condos selling at a minimum of $5,000 a square foot, Elad is poised to rake in nearly $2.4 billion in residential sales."
The centennial of the Plaza Hotel was celebrated October 1 with a fireworks show launched from the building's roof and many of its windows, and a 12-foot-high cake replicating the design of the famous landmark was displayed in the city of the plaza in front of the east entrance to the hotel, whose $400-million-plus renovation is nearing completion.
The Plaza Hotel was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect who designed the Dakota apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street, and opened in 1907. In 1921, Warren & Wetmore designed an expansion on 58th Street. The hotel's exterior was designated a city landmark in the 1960s and eight of its public rooms were declared interior landmarks in 2004.
The "Private Residences" at The Plaza Hotel have their own entrance on Central Park South and a large garden court with cascading fountain at the bottom of the building's large rectangular lightwell. The "residences" are all on the north and east sides of the building and the hotel rooms are on the south side along 58th Street.
Kitchens will have "mini marble blocks" that "move across the backsplash" and "below them, a ledge of dark Nero Marquinia marble meets the counter" and "a Dramatic Perrin and Rowe gooseneck faucet is the focal point of the room," the article maintained.
The article noted that architect Gal Nauer used white oak in the Parquet de Versailles pattern, bordered by an inlayed walnut strip in the apartment entrances and opted to keep the "large proportions of the base mouldings but "streamlined the decoration" as opposed to the former design that was "incredibly oprnate, with heavy gold leafing." The article also said that in the master bedroom Ms. Nauer, the daughter of Isaac Tshuva, the owner of the property, "wanted to install one decorative fixture to the master bedroom - a fireplace."
Mr. Tshuva is the founder and chairman of the El-Ad Group, whose Elad Properties subsidiary bought the property three years ago for $675 million from Alwaleed Bin Talal Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi Prince, and Millennium and Copthorne Hotels. Two years ago, Elad sold the hotel portion of the property back to the prince for about $500 million. The renovation of the hotel has created 181 condominium apartments, a 134-room hotel on floors 4 through 10, and 152 hotel-condo units on floors 11 through 21.
An item on Curbed.com today about the pointclickhome.com article elicited numerous anonymous comments, mostly negative: "Pretty underwhelming"; "Looks just like my girlfriend's Fort Green rental"; "My Washington Heights co-op has more detail than this place"; "it's pretty stark for the price-point"; and "Custom made Viking 'professional' stoves/ranges? I would have expected nothing less than Le Cornnue, Bonnet, or (maybe) Aga."
According to an article in the October 1, 2007 edition of The New York Sun by Bradley Hope "just 12 of the luxury condos have yet to be purchased..., and a third of the hotel-condos are gone," adding that with...luxury condos selling at a minimum of $5,000 a square foot, Elad is poised to rake in nearly $2.4 billion in residential sales."
The centennial of the Plaza Hotel was celebrated October 1 with a fireworks show launched from the building's roof and many of its windows, and a 12-foot-high cake replicating the design of the famous landmark was displayed in the city of the plaza in front of the east entrance to the hotel, whose $400-million-plus renovation is nearing completion.
The Plaza Hotel was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect who designed the Dakota apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street, and opened in 1907. In 1921, Warren & Wetmore designed an expansion on 58th Street. The hotel's exterior was designated a city landmark in the 1960s and eight of its public rooms were declared interior landmarks in 2004.
The "Private Residences" at The Plaza Hotel have their own entrance on Central Park South and a large garden court with cascading fountain at the bottom of the building's large rectangular lightwell. The "residences" are all on the north and east sides of the building and the hotel rooms are on the south side along 58th Street.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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